Damn...Uncle Ray Ray, Aunt Bathsheba, and Cuzin Junebug goin be commin' home, and being as though I live alone with an extra bedroom and a finished basement, you know where they goin' be trying to stay. OH Hell No!
Damn, there goes my jewelries, my TV and my couch...
Life sucks, but racism is worst so I'm good. I guess. I never watch that plasma TV anyway! LMAO
Taz
Crack cons can seek sentence reductions
By Associated Press Wednesday, December 12, 2007 http://www.bostonherald.com General Politics
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously yesterday to let 19,500 federal inmates, most of them black, seek reductions in crack cocaine sentences.
The commission, which sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, decided to make retroactive its recent easing of recommended sentences for crack offenses.
About 3,800 inmates could be eligible for release within a year of the March 3 effective date of yesterday’s decision. Federal judges will have the final say whether to reduce sentences. The commissioners said the delay would give judges and prison officials time to deal with public safety and other issues.
Critics say heavier sentences for crack cocaine unfairly impacted mainly inner-city blacks, while powder-cocaine offenders - often suburban whites - received lighter sentences.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey opposed the move, saying the convicted crack offenders were sentenced under an existing standard and to change that standard retroactively dismisses any other factors judges considered at sentencing. He added releasing inmates could cause problems for communities whose probation systems are not ready to receive them.
By Associated Press Wednesday, December 12, 2007 http://www.bostonherald.com General Politics
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously yesterday to let 19,500 federal inmates, most of them black, seek reductions in crack cocaine sentences.
The commission, which sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, decided to make retroactive its recent easing of recommended sentences for crack offenses.
About 3,800 inmates could be eligible for release within a year of the March 3 effective date of yesterday’s decision. Federal judges will have the final say whether to reduce sentences. The commissioners said the delay would give judges and prison officials time to deal with public safety and other issues.
Critics say heavier sentences for crack cocaine unfairly impacted mainly inner-city blacks, while powder-cocaine offenders - often suburban whites - received lighter sentences.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey opposed the move, saying the convicted crack offenders were sentenced under an existing standard and to change that standard retroactively dismisses any other factors judges considered at sentencing. He added releasing inmates could cause problems for communities whose probation systems are not ready to receive them.
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